@suhou.bsky.social
Fiat justicia, ruat coelum... "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall." Reluctant social media user. Trying to stay reasonably informed as a mildly lazy IT professional. Cats, crafting, choir, cdrama enthusiast.
As if that ever mattered to this administration and their lackeys.
What a heartbreaking story... and how wonderfully this family is dealing with the tragedy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/u...
Chicago vs Trump #SoundOn
@remarkablyrude.bsky.social Another satisfied customer of the White Lady email technique; just got some 2-yr-old damaged medals replaced after firm but polite email exchange! Your voice was in my mind even as I wrote them. [sorry this is on Bluesky and not X; I got rid of all my other socials] Thx!
manga eyes + cats + ceramics = my favorite
OMG I want all of these
I came across the BEST name for a literary character today: Tobias Pfutze. Pfutze is German for "puddle" or "small pool of dirty water." Please use with caution; he is an economist and deserves his dignity!
Pea-sized hail falling in Lenox Village
On Thurs 4/10, the TN State Senate is voting on SB0836, the bill allowing school districts to discriminate against students based on their immigration status. The vote will be at 8:30am, so TIRRC is mobilizing a big turnout for folks to show up at 8am. Details & RSVP www.mobilize.us/tirrcvotes/e....
Sometimes the only thing that keeps me going is the knowledge that we’re going to have a bumper schadenfreude harvest this year.
... GOOD guy, not some man whose toxicity is only revealed years later under duress. I'm astonished that anyone uses dating as a way to meet partners. It feels so uncomfortable and loaded with potential stumbling blocks. It preys on all insecurities. It makes authenticity almost impossible. 4/end
... would have better luck with being forced into an arranged marriage... as a teenager. The self I am now is so comfortable in my relatively quiet, independent life with friends and hobbies, that imagining adding a guy to my life feels like developing a terminal illness. And that's with a ... 3/
I mean, seriously... if the most common way of developing a relationship is an activity I look on with loathing, then what chance have I of ever finding someone? The handful of dates I have been on were so awkward, so difficult, and I was so far from being my relaxed, authentic self, that I ... 2/
Just saw a popup ad for insider tips to "up your Bumble game" and considered it for a moment, but then had an epiphanoo (word credit to @mariabamford.bsky.social; imagine a lesser epiphany), and it is this: I would honestly rather go to the gym than go on a date. And I HAAAAATE going to the gym. 1/
...my early development of cataracts) for radiation, which also burned the skin around my face and eyes. I wish I hadn't sought to get my clogged tear duct in my right eye fixed surgically years previously (twice!). I wish I hadn't gone to Vanderbilt Eye Institute for my basic eye care. 4/4
...that I was going blind. Once I had my cataract surgeries, I was so happy and grateful to be out of that (literally) dark time. Looking back on it, there were things I wish I had done differently. I wish I hadn't rejected the possible chemo treatment option (which could have bypassed 3/4
...feared, although the cataracts that appeared a few years later due to the radiation treatment were deeply distressing, since none of my eye doctors thought to tell me that my increasingly poor vision was due to cataracts! ("But your vision is 20/20!") I was terrified 2/4
Today is the ten-year anniversary of the call from an eye surgeon telling me that the biopsy they had done a few days earlier showed I had conjunctiva lymphoma in both eyes (we had thought it was pinkeye!) It was an awful day. But looking back now, it wasn't nearly as bad an experience as I had 1/4
I wish I could teach my phone that whenever I’m playing a game, I will NEVER download Royal Match, and to stop showing me ads for it. I can’t think of anything more repellent than a game that shows someone about to die in a torture scenario overandover again.
Yup
I was building some website stuff about economics for work, and came across this amazing tool called AbortionAccessDashboard.org. Basically an economics-based database about abortion facility availability, travel time for states with full abortion bans, etc. Fascinating and useful!
Paw prints:
State abortion bans and worries that conservative lawmakers could also try to restrict access to birth control have an increasing number of American women and men deciding to undergo sterilization procedures.
How safe is your area? —Susan from AEA in Nashville
trying to schedule automatic emails from a secondary service... please hold!
Hoping Bluesky will be the Twixter replacement when it collapses...!
